. Minutes . child athome clutched at your courage with cries for bread, your faithand hope and patience to the vwd, your trust in God. yourcourage which sounded all the depths and shoals of misfor-tune, your battle anthem for home and native land risingheavenward above the roar of a hundred stormy contests. Yourbones are mouldering to-day in unknown graves, but each oneof those graves cradles until the reveille of the resurreeti mthe dust of as Knightly a Knight as ever fell upon his shat-tered shield. Those graves may be unknown to men. but n*\ Address of Rev. E. C. De la Moriniere. 131
. Minutes . child athome clutched at your courage with cries for bread, your faithand hope and patience to the vwd, your trust in God. yourcourage which sounded all the depths and shoals of misfor-tune, your battle anthem for home and native land risingheavenward above the roar of a hundred stormy contests. Yourbones are mouldering to-day in unknown graves, but each oneof those graves cradles until the reveille of the resurreeti mthe dust of as Knightly a Knight as ever fell upon his shat-tered shield. Those graves may be unknown to men. but n*\ Address of Rev. E. C. De la Moriniere. 131 to Him the Lord of Hosts and the God of Battles Who has lo igsince crowned your brow with the diadem of immortality dueto featc of self-denial and renunciation which have no parallelin the annals of Chivalry. Our Feast of Remembrance is now complete; (cries ofGo on! Dont stop); and yet no, not so, until we have laidthe tribute of our homage at the feet of those min-istering angels to our boys in gray during those. Court House, Mobile County. (lays of trying warfare: the women of Hie Confederacy. Theirswas not a devotion that manifested itself publicly, not a devo-tion that prompted Joan of Are to lead the warriors of France;no. they carried no muskets to the front, but, through the longdark hours of that protracted struggle, how sublime their in-fluence, their patience, their sufferings, their aspirations, theirexample! The presence of ther sympathy and of their aid,the potency of their prayers and the eloquence of their smiles 132 Tweniieth Reunion, Mobile, Ala., April26, 27and28,1910. and their tears, were priceless in the inspiration which theybrought, and more effectual than an army with banners. Andwhen the struggle was over, by the surrender of Lee at Ap-pomattox, in tender appreciation of the brave deeds wroughtin the name of truth and freedom, in proud memory of theslain, they dotted our desolate land with soldiers monuments,gathered the sacred dust, mounted guard by u
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